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Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum

Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum rather than just read about it. In short: The Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum (HMIM) is the largest insect collection in Iran with over 4 million insect specimens, including 20–25,000 local species, hundreds of primary types and paratypes, and a representative collection of exotic insects, especially tropical butterflies. History In 1943, Iranian entomologist JaIaI Afshar established a small entomology laboratory in the then Ministry of Agriculture in Tehran.

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The Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum (HMIM) is the largest insect collection in Iran with over 4 million insect specimens, including 20–25,000 local species, hundreds of primary types and paratypes, and a representative collection of exotic insects, especially tropical butterflies.

History In 1943, Iranian entomologist JaIaI Afshar established a small entomology laboratory in the then Ministry of Agriculture in Tehran. Soon after, several Russian entomologists began collaborating with the lab. In 1945, a small group of fresh graduate students, including Hayk Mirzayans, joined the lab. Beside his regular duties in the lab and involvement in Corn Bug and locust eradication programs, Mirzayans began collecting and identifying Iranian insects, and with the help of his Russian colleagues laid the foundation of what later became the largest insect museum in the country. After the foundation of Plant Pests and Diseases Research Institute (PPDRI, now IRIPP, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection) in 1962, the lab was renamed to Laboratory of Entomology and Plant protection, and the insect collection became part of the Insect Taxonomy Research Department (ITRD) in the Institute’s main building. In a span of about 15 years, the collection grew. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and with the retirement of a large group of researchers, the ITRD staff was reduced to only a few people, and the international collaborations were minimized. It took a decade before the department was fully re-staffed and research activities were resumed. In the spring of 1999, after the death of Mirzayans, the collection was named the Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum (HMIM). Today the collection holds many type specimens.

Research Identification of insect fauna of Iran is the main objective of HMIM. The HMIM insect collection is spread over four main collection halls: Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Orthoptera and Hymenoptera/Diptera. Beside basic taxonomic research and collaborations, HMIM welcomes entomology students and research affiliates every year, advises the MSc, PhD students’ theses, offers training courses, and helps other scientific research centers in completion and maintenance of their insect collections. ITRD acts as the National Identification Service for governmental or non-governmental organizations, publishes various articles, reports, books, data banks and checklists of its holdings, and provides these information free of charge to all visitors.

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In the classroom: Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1945 establishments in Iran, Biographical museums in Iran, Insect museums, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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